Verve Jazz Masters 38 (CD)

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• Release Date: November 8, 1994
• Label: Verve (USA)
• UPC: 731451693120
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105797175
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #20971 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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• #84 in Guitar (See Top 100 Guitar Bestsellers)

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Personnel includes: Django Reinhardt (guitar); Hubert Rostaing (clarinet); Stephane Grappelli (violin); Maurice Vander, Ivon De Bie (piano); Jack Llewellyn, Alan Hodgkiss, Roger Chaput, Eugene Vees, Pierre "Barot" Ferret, Joseph Reinhardt (guitar); Coleridge Goode, Louis Vola, Emmanuel Soudieux, Ladislas Czanbanyck, Pierre Michelot (bass); Andre Jourdan, Jean-Louis Viale (drums).

Principally recorded in London, England and Paris, France between 1938 and 1953. Includes liner notes by Alain Antonietto.

Digitally remastered by Didier Marc (Top Master, Paris, France).

This is part of Verve's Jazz Master series.

This set, selected from representative portions of Reinhardt's impressive catalogue, offers a perfect introduction to the work of this phenomenal musician. JAZZ MASTERS plays like the world's most enjoyable textbook on swing guitar. The cuts here feature the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, solo work, duets, and pairings with the equally virtuosic Stephane Grappelli on violin. The interaction between Grapelli and Reinhardt on such tunes as "Daphne" and "Souvenirs" is a dazzling example of rhythmic fluidity.

Standards such as "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Night And Day," and "The Man I Love" alternate with superb Reinhardt originals like "Djangology" and "Swing 48." Reinhardt's music combines a clear, open-ended sound uncommon to early jazz with a powerful rhythmic intensity. His gypsy-flavored swing style-marked by flurried noodling in the high register, soulful stringbends, and looping melodic patterns (and all the more amazing since Reinhardt only had the use of two fingers)-transforms the guitar's fretboard into a field for acrobatics. This Verve collection of classic tracks by the guitar master is an excellent collection for fans and an essential purchase for the uninitiated.

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